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THE ASPERMONT STAR
VOL. 78, NO. 52
ASPERMONT, STONEWALL COUNTY, TEXAS, 70502, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1976
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ASratMONT IN.
Yesteryears
FIFTY YEARS AGO
(Aug. 12, 1926)
Qn ioat Sunday svsnins
couples of young people were
driving on a main street running
north of the square when a lively
little race was engaged in. All was
well enough until the Maxwell
roadster driven by Luther Marr
became uncontrolable, headed for
a telephone post, and turned over.
Miss Theresa Granthem received
several bruises none of which were
considered serious. The car was
almost a total wreck.
Six of the girls taking the training
course met at the Cafe last
Saturday for the examination from
National Headquarters. Girls who
were out of town, or for some other
reason missed the examination will
be issued an "interested member''
certificate. All who completed the
course will receive the Training
Course Certificate.
Any girls wishing to send gar-
ments to Children's Hospital leave
them with Iva Green or Ernestine
Br an n en. These garments must be
in by Aug. 21. /
The Training Course Girls
received such an interesting box
from Headquarters containing
Camp Fire supplies.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
(Aug. 16, 1956)
A deal was consummated on
Wednesday of last week whereby
Mrs. Orville Aycock purchased
Mary's Gift Shop from Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Moore.
"Bill," as Mrs. Aycock is more
familiarly known to her many
friends, announces that she has
added a rental library to the store,
and also handles children's hand-
made dresses, in addition to a
complete line of gifts for all oc-
casions.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rimes of
Aspermont are the parents of a
baby girl, born at 6:30 a.m., on
Tuesday, August 14, in the Hamlin
Memorial Hospital. The young lady
tipped the scales at six pounds,
two ounces and has been named
Brenda Joyce. Mr. and Mrs. V. S.
Kolb of Aspermont, are the
maternal grandparents, while Mr.
and Mrs. Lum Rimes of Guthrie
are paternal grandparents.
Misses Glenda Gardner, Lynda
Lee Yarborough, Nan Norris,
Norma Hill, and Carol Moore,
majorettes for Aspermont High
School pep squad, will be leaving
Sunday for Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, where they
spend a week attending majorette
school. The group will be ac-
companied by their sponsor, Mrs.
John P. Ward, who will serve as a
counselor in the school.
TEN YEARS AGO
(Aug. 18, 1967)
Seventy to eighty pounds of
catfish and bass were grappled out
to the Aspermont Lake by Billy
Griggs, Mickey Gerloff and David
Veraor. The boys used gallon
buckets and their hands to catch
the fish. Five catfish weighed
about 11 pounds each. The bass
weighed 3 to 7 pounds each. The
fish were caught in two hours.
The State 4-H Horse Show was
held last weekend in San Antonio.
One boy from Aspermont, Gary
Six, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Six was qualified to enter. Gary
placed 7th in a class of 110 in
reining. He also was in the top 20 in
Western Pleasure.
Billy Morrow, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sheep Morrow of Guthrie and
a King County entry placed first in
reining.
pkns Taking shape Aspermont Now One Step
For 100th Birthday, .
Closer to Keeping Doctors
Bicentennial Party
A tentative schedule of
events for the Stonewall
County iuuin Birthday and
Bicentennial Program has
been prepared and plans for
the big event are well un-
derway.
Everyone in the county is
invited to participate and
many organizations and
individuals are already busy
with arrangements.
The tentative schedule
includes a parade at 10 a.m.
with band and color guard.
The welcome will be given by
Travis Hartgraves to be
followed by registration of all
visitors.
Several activities have
been planned throughout the
day, including a display of
antiques, arts and crafts at
the library. The 4-H Club will
have concessions of tea,
lemonade and hot dogs.
The Methodist Church
booth will feature cake and
homemade ice cream.
A water bucket contest
arranged by the firemen will
be held during the morning
along with a bake sale, horse
shoe and washer pitching and
a program of western music.
A lunch break is scheduled
at noon.
After lunch the activities
will include sack races,
bonnet Judging and pony ride,
all sponsored by the Young
Homemakers of Texas
Aspermont Chapter.
The Stonewall County
Farm Bureau is sponsoring a
contest for the best dressed
couple in early day costume.
The Senior Citizens will
conduct a tournament of
dominoes.
At 2:30 p.m. a program
will be held opening with an
auction of medallions. A
program of music at 3:30 is
on the tentative schedule.
A free barbecue will be
served on the courthouse
lawn at 5:30 p.m.
A medicine show type
entertainment will be
presented by the newly
organized little theatre
group featuring Bob Izzard of
Abilene as the medicine man.
An Old Glory group will
have a booth of handwork
displays and serve lemonade.
A tractor pull is also in the
planning stage. Climaxing
the all-day celebration will be
a street dance and square
dancing by Haskell County
Squares with Leon Ivy as
caller.
The first major step in
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two of their three Filipino
doctors was made last week
when the U. S. Senate passed
two private bills of Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen.
The bills, passed last
Thursday, would give per-
manent resident visas to
three foreign doctors. They
are Drs. Antonio and Lesley
Serrano of Aspermont and
Dr. Laurence Gavao of Baird.
Also included in the bills
are the Serranos' son,
Kenneth Neil, and Dr.
Gayao's wife and daughter,
Loraine.
Now the bills go to the
House of Representatives for
consideration.
U. S. Rep. Omar Burleson
of Anson, whose district in-
cludes both Aspermont and
Baird, told the Abilene
Reporter-News Friday that
he will speak with members
of the Immigration and
Naturalization Subcommittee
of the House Judiciary
Committee to try to help
speed the bills through.
However, he said he was
unsure when the bills might
be considered
EARLY DAY HAPPENINGS-
by Bonnie McDowell
Editor's Note: Bonnie
McDowell, a member of
the Historical Society, has
contributed the following
account of early day
happenings to emphasize
the forthcoming bicen-
tennial celebration and
celebration of Stonewall
County's 100th an-
niversary. Mrs. Mc-
Dowell has titled her
account, "This is the Way
I Heard It.'
Three men, early settlers in
Stonewall County were
returning home one spring
afternoon in the early 1900s
having gone to Rule, the
nearest supply point, when
they noticed thunderheads
boiling up in the southwest.
They knew it would crowd
them to get home before it
struck, but they urged their
tired teams on, knowing the
danger of being caught out in
the open country with no
trees or fences near for the
lightning to hit.
They had managed to get
as far as the 'Rock House'—
the halfway point for settlers
who lived in the northwest
part of the county to stop
over. This house is still
standing—the oldest house in
Stonewall County, now owned
by Mark Luttrall, two miles
north of Aspermont.
As they reached the house,
Hornets Set Scrimmage
With Rochester Aug. 20
Two-a-day workouts are
now underway for the
Aspermont football boys in
preparation for the fall
Little Theatre
Group Organized
Here Tuesday
A Little Theatre group met
to organize last Tuesday and
make plans for their part In
the upcoming County Cen-
tennial and Bicentennial
celebration here Aug. 28.
Those meeting voted to
have dues of ts per year per
member and a name will be
selected later. Suggestions
for a name will be welcomed,
one of the organizers noted.
Plans for a medicine show
type presentation at the Aug.
28 event will feature Bob
Izzard of KTXS News as the
medicine man. His news tv
crew is expected In Asper-
mont on that date, also.
The show will be staged at 7
p.m. on a stage to be built on
the courthouse square. There
will be no admission and
those attending are asked to
bring lawn chairs or blankets
for Mating.
Anyone Interested In taking
part to the tittle theatre ac-
tivities may contact Elmer
Ward
football season.
The varsity will see first
competition in a scrimmage
at Rochester Aug. 20 and the
second scrimmage here with
Albany Aug. 27.
Hie fall season for the
Hornets will open Sept. 3 with
Rule here. Other home games
will be Spur, Sept. 24; Knox
City, Oct. 1; Hamlin, Oct. 22;
Rotan, Nov. 5; and Munday,
Nov. 12.
Sept. 10 will be an open
date.
Games away will be at
Jayton,Sept. 17; at Paducah,
Oct. 8; at Haskell, Oct. 15;
and at Crowell, Oct. 29.
Senior Pictures
Here August 19
The senior pictures for
Aspermont High School
graduates of 1977 will be
taken Aug. >9, according to
an announcement by Mack
Peacock, class sponsor.
Seniors, in a called meeting
Tuesday evening, were to
make selections for attire and
color for the pictures.
Billy M. Blanton, Loretta
and Annette of Glendsve,
Moot visited in the home of
Mr and Mm. Tom Blanton
and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Snow.
the storm struck with a fury,
bringing gales of wind and
rain. After what seemed like
hours of pouring rain, it let up
enough for the travelers to
check on their teams, when
one of the men said. "Listen,
that sounds like somebody
hollering." Hearing the call
again, they mounted their
horses and rode toward
where the voice seemed to be
coming from
The creeks had gone over
their banks with the sudden
downpour, and was bringing
driftwood, animals and
debris downstream, rising
steadily as the water from the
surrounding hills rushed
down.
The distress call was
coming from a man who had
been showing a cattle buyer
his herd, riding through the
surrounding hills, when the
spring flood hit before they
realized it. They dismounted
and ran for the nearest
shelter, an overhanging ledge
on the side of the creek bank,
where they could stay dry
until the rain had passed.
They began to get alarmed
when the creek started rising
rapidly, but did not realize
they were in greater danger
until the ledge above them
collapsed and buried the
cattle buyer. Only the head of
the other man was left above
ground.
As he watched, terrified,
the creek kept steadily rising
and he knew in a short time it
could easily be over his head.
When the men found him,
they dug the mud from
around him and attached
ropes under his arms, pulling
him out with the horses.
This man was the late J. E.
Keen, whose land holdings
took in a large part of the
Aspermont township and
reached several miles north.
His descendants gave some of
this land as the site for the
Stonewall Memorial
Hospital.
The late Nelson Poore was
one of the men who helped
rescue Mr. Keen, and passed
this true story on to me. He
said they spent the night at
the Rock House and when
they awoke the next morning,
Mr. Keen's hair had turned
«hite overnight and remain
ed so for the rest of his life.
There are a large number
of "private bills" pending
before the committee, he
said, and Burleson said he
was unsure when the com-
mittee could hear them. And,
the congressional recess for
the Republican National
Convention is approaching
fast.
If the Serranos — a
husband and wife doctor
team — were deported it
would leave only one doctor
in Aspermont, Dr. Richard
Tan. Dr. Tan, who kept
Stonewall Memorial Hospital
open about three weeks
before Dr. Antonio Serrano
arrived thereon a tourist visa
Appreciation Tea
Honors Doctors
'This Is the Way I Heard It...'
An appreciation tea
honoring Drs. Antonio and
Lesley Serrano at Stonewall
Memorial Clinic was well
attended Sunday afternoon.
Some 65 guests were
registered by Mrs. L. D.
McAfee, who presided at the
registry.
A special guest was Dr.
Lesley Serrano's mother,
Mrs. Josefa Tiangko of
Manila, Philippines.
Wheat Production
Meeting Planned
Dr. Dale Lovelace,
agronomist from Vernon will
be here Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m.
to discuss wheat production,
according to Stonewall
County Agent Truette Hen-
nig.
He will discuss controlling
wild oats, fertilizer ap-
plication and varieties.
The meeting will be at the
County Court Room. County
Agent Hennig will preside.
Guests were served from a
table covered with a white
lace edged cloth and centered
with an arrangement of
mixed summer flowers.
Crystal and silver ap-
pointments were used. Mrs.
Ralph Riddel and Mrs
Newton Caldwell served.
Other hostesses were
Mmes. Allie Foster, George
C. Kenady Jr.. Wade Davis,
Dero Galloway, Marvin
Crawford, Eugene McDowell,
Jack Jones, Leonard Branch
and Frank Poore.
The husband-wife doctor
team and their son Kenneth
recently moved from a
furnished apartment to a
house. Action is being taken
to allow the family per-
manent residency in the
United States.
<5 Attend 4-H
Swim Party Here
A swim and watermelon
party at Aspermont Pool
Aug. 4 was attended by some
65 4-Hers and their parents.
Swimming results in the
three divisions were:
Fourth and Fifth Grades.
Jerry Johnson, 1; Steve
Hawkins, 2; Jackie Work-
man, 3; and Gomer Criswell,
4.
Sixth and Seventh Grades:
Mark Kluting, 1; John
Hawkins, 2; Ben Hawkins, 3;
and Brad Hennig, 4.
High School: Roy Swink, 1;
James Johnson, 2; Monte
Mitchell, 3; and Steve Swink,
4.
SWCD Director
Election Set
Here Saturday
A director for Zone III of
King-Stonewall District will
be elected at a meeting at 10
a.m. Saturday at Frazier's
Cafe, according to an an-
nouncement by Sam Taf-
finder of the Soil and Water
Conservation District.
DeWitt Ellison Jr., is
presently zone III director.
Others from Stonewall
County on the board are
Dalton Davis, zone IV; and
Benno Erdman, zone V.
Directors serve five year
terms.
The two other members of
the five-member board are
from King County.
The SWCD is an
organization dedicated to
help farmers and ranchers
solve conservation problems
at the local level, Taffinder
said
last November, said the
workload of such a situation
would tend to be too much for
one doctor.
The Serranos' problems
began after they had
arrived in Aspermont, Dr.
Antonio Serrano came in
November on a tourist visa to
help out in the local 25-bed
hospital. He later converted
his tourist visa to a work visa.
Dr. Lesley Serrano arrived
here Jan. 26 on a work visa.
Later, the U. S. Im-
migration and Naturalization
Service said they are living in
the United States illegally.
Dr. Antonio Serrano had been
ordered to leave June 12.
"There was no hearing,"
Dr. Lesley Serrano said. "We
didn't even know he was in
trouble."
Two days before he was to
leave the country, the
Serranos were summoned to
a hearing in Dallas. That
hearing came after Sen.
Bentson had submitted his
bills. The Senator became
involved in the effort after the
people of Aspermont learned
about the doctor's plight and
started a letter writing
campaign.
At the hearing, a judge
ruled that since the Serranos
had apparently overstayed
their visas, they would have
to leave the nation on or
before Sept. 23 unless
Congress passed the Bentsen
bills. Dr, Lesley Serrano said.
Both the doctors and the
residents of Aspermont are
waiting now on the House of
Representatives to learn the
fate of the two doctors here
Area Highways
Get Seal Coat
ABILENE - Highway
improvement project in the
Stonewall County area are
included in the 1976 State
Highway Safety and Bet-
terment and Farm to Market
Road Improvement
Program, recently approved
by the State Highway and
Public Transportation
Commission.
District Engineer Roger
Welsch of the State Depart-
ment of Highways and Public
Transportation said work in
this area includes a seal coat
on U. S. 83 and U. S. 380 from
Aspermont to U. S. 380 north
of Aspermont for a total of 2.1
miles.
Mr and Mrs. Loyd Burt are
parents of a girl, Teresa
Gayle, 8 lbs l oz„ born Aug.
10 at Stonewall Memorial
Hospital.
Visitors over the weekend
in the home of Laura Lee
Baldree were her daughter
and family, the Harlon
Powers of Gainesville. The
grandsons. Terry and Gerry
are staying for a visit.
Kim Baldree, daughter of
Mrs. Laura Lee Baldree, is
home after having knee
surgery last week at Hen-
drick Memorial Hospital in
Abilene. She is recovering
nicely, although she will be on
crutches for awhile.
24 CASES IN COUNTY-
Five New Screwworm
Cases Reported Here
Five new cases of
screwworms were reported
in the county over the
weekend, according to
Stonewall County Agent
Truette Hennig. Added to the
19 reported January through
July this year the county total
reported is now 24.
A total of 8772 cases were
reported in Texas during
January through July.
Recent cases in Montague
county in North Texas and In
Stonewall, Baylor, Cottle,
Kent and Motley counties In
the Rolling Plains mean that
screwworms are now within
striking distance of all live-
stock In the state.
Agent Hennig urge* pro-
ducers to check their
livestock regularly, spray for
flies, treat any wounds, and
send any worms foimd in
wounds to the Mission lab for
Identification. Prepaid self-
addressed mailing kits are
available from the County
Agent's office for this pur
pose.
The USDA's Screwworm
Eradication Program is
designed to eradicate the wild
screwworm fly population by
releasing millions of sexually
sterile screwworm flies every
week to mate with the fertile
wild flies. Mating* between
fertile and sterile (lies
produce eggs that do net
hatch, thus breaking the
screwworm life-cyck.
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